Re: Octave 2.9.9 + Octave-Forge 2006.07.09 on x86 MAC OS X 10.4.8 Tiger

[Paul Koufalas]

G'day Marius,

Thanks for your reply.  On my MBP, "which octave" yields

/usr/local/bin/octave

which is a symlink to octave-2.9.9 in that directory.  I also found an "octave-config" binary in that directory and it tells me the following:

$ octave-config --m-site-dir

/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/site/m

$octave-config --oct-site-dir

/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/site/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.8.1

$ octave-config -p BINDIR

/usr/local/bin

$ octave-config -p API_VERSION

api-v22

$ octave-config -p CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE

i386-apple-darwin8.8.1

$ octave-config -p LIBDIR            

/usr/local/lib

$ octave-config -p LIBEXECDIR

/usr/local/libexec

$ octave-config -p OCTLIBDIR

/usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.9

$ octave-config -p DATADIR

/usr/local/share

$ octave-config -p ARCHLIBDIR

/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/exec/i386-apple-darwin8.8.1

Is that consistent with HMUG's octave-forge 2006.07.09?  It appears so from the "m" and "oct" dir information, right?

Cheers,

Paul.

On 17/12/2006, at 4:03 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:

Paul,

Since I use my own, i.e. the HMUG ports, I can't tell you where the hpc build has installed octave.

However, you should be able to tell by typing 

which octave

The HMUG builds are installed under /usr/local, more specifically the components are installed under /usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9 and /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9.

On Dec 15, 2006, at 6:41 AM, Paul Koufalas wrote:

G'day all.

I'm trying to get Octave + Octave Forge running on my new MacBook  

Pro Core 2 Duo (x86) running OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger)

I installed the binary Octave 2.9.9 from the HPC project without  

much trouble at all.  I then tried to install the binary Octave- 

Forge from the HMUG site and am having trouble getting it to work.   

Not sure if it's something simple (path problem), Mac specific (X11  

issue) or nefarious.

From having what looked to be a working Octave 2.9.9, this is what  

I get when I run Octave now:

GNU Octave, version 2.9.9 (i386-apple-darwin8.8.1).

Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.

This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Additional information about Octave is available at http:// 

www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.

For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read

http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful  

report).

error: couldn't link module /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/site/ 

oct/i386-apple-darwin8.8.1/octave-forge/gf.oct

error: evaluating argument list element number 2

error: near line 24 of file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/site/m/ 

octave-forge/comm/PKG_ADD'

error: source: error sourcing file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/ 

site/m/octave-forge/comm/PKG_ADD'

error: near line 11 of file `/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/m/ 

startup/octaverc'

octave:1> randint(2,2,2)

ans =

   1   0

   1   1

octave:2> which randint

randint is the user-defined function from the file

/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9/site/m/octave-forge/comm/randint.m

octave:3> which gf

error: couldn't link module /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/site/ 

oct/i386-apple-darwin8.8.1/octave-forge/gf.octwhich: `gf' is the  

script file

/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.9.9/site/oct/i386-apple-darwin8.8.1/ 

octave-forge/gf

octave:3>

===

When I remove all of the Octave-Forge directories, Octave looks ok  

again.  Any help / advice with this is much appreciated.

Cheers,

Paul

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